thanks for the welcome
I'll try to stifle my liberal tenancies and be a constructive contributor in our areas of mutual agreement.
No need to stifle anything, we love healthy debate. The operative word being healthy.
what I really need to stifle are my occasional tenancies to be an asshole. I spent too much time at DU.
Tell you what.... when the other assholes stifle themselves, then we will expect the same from you.
Just kidding assholes, I love you all, really. 
What DID those people do to you? You seem to be fixated on assholes now. I hope it passes.
MUST . . . control . . . my . . . warped . . . mind . . .

But, while I've got the floor in a figurative sense, welcome, comradebillyboy! I hope that you don't restrain yourself, but don't go after anyone personally. I wish that you could get some previously tombstoned members of DU over here. OMC, for example, seems to be a decent guy, if a tad different in his political leanings than I am.